😇 Pardon szn

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Now that President Trump has pardoned CZ, it means Polymarket must find a new odds-on favorite for clemency.

Turns out, that’s Roger Ver, whom the market says currently has a 25% chance, up from 9% before CZ’s pardon. In third, with 14% and presented without comment: Diddy.

For what it’s worth, the market had given CZ a 38.5% shot just before the pardon was announced yesterday afternoon.

While we wait to see whether Ver’s slate will indeed be wiped clean, we’ve got a piping hot roundup episode of the Empire podcast ready and waiting.

Join Yano, Santi and Rob as they cover the most important topics in crypto this week: big acquisitions from Coinbase and FalconX, the state of the crypto market structure bill, the latest in prediction market discourse and more.

Catch the full episode on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and X. 

Enjoy! And see you next week.

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Katana was built by answering a core question: What if a chain contributed revenue back into the ecosystem to drive growth and yield?

We direct revenue back to DeFi participants for consistently higher yields.

Katana is pioneering concepts like Productive TVL (the portion of assets are actually doing work), Chain Owned Liquidity (permanent liquidity owned by Katana to maintain stability), and VaultBridge (putting bridged assets to work generating extra yield for active participants).

Last week, we asked: “Was this the end of the bear market?”

21% of you said: “Yep,” while 43% of you replied: “It’s not over until the dogcoins rally.” 

That’s better odds than CZ’s pardon received on Polymarket, so I guess we have that to look forward to.

This week, we’re wondering: